DescriptionGary Burton is a jazz vibraphonist, composer and jazz educator. Burton
developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative
to the prevailing two-mallet technique.
Gary Burton is the recipient of the NEA Jazz Masters award, the highest honor that our nation bestows on a jazz musician.
He has been heralded as an innovator and his sound and technique are widely imitated. He is also
known for pioneering fusion jazz and popularizing the duet format in
jazz, as well as being a major figure in music education due to his 33
years of teaching at the Berklee College of Music, and his many years
of service as executive vice president of Berklee.
Gary has recorded over 60 albums and won 7 Grammy Awards. Beginning
in the 1960s, when he was still a teenager, Gary has performed with
almost every major jazz musician.
Gary wrote a wonderful autobiography titled Learning to Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary Burton: An Autobiography
that was published in 2013, and is available through www.amazon.com.
The book won the Best Book of the Year 2014 award from the Jazz
Journalists Association.
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